tioned, continued to tell fortunes for
some time after we had taken her children; but it pleased the Holy Spirit
to awaken her conscience, and to shew her the wickedness of such crimes,
by which she was led to true repentance and reformation of character.

After the death of both the children of this interesting individual, she
went into the service of a kind and pious lady in London. For this
situation she was prepared by one of equal benevolence in Southampton,
who had her for some time in her own house for that purpose. She
continued in this situation till the lady's death, and has since been in
other service, where she has conducted herself so well as to prove she is
become a sincere servant of Christ.

CHAP. X. Some Remarks on the Sin of Fortune-telling.

The author will be pardoned, he is willing to hope, by the kind reader,
if he digress in one or two paragraphs in this part of his work,
purposely to expose the great wickedness of prognostication and
fortune-telling; as the whole is not only unsound, foolish, absurd and
false, but is most peremptorily forbidden in the Scriptures.

In the law of Moses it is commanded, that there should not be found among
the people, any that used divination, or that was an observer of the
times, or that was an enchanter: Deut. xiii. 10. In the prophecies of
Malachi, the Lord has declared--_Thou shalt have no more soothsayers_:
Mal. v. 12. Balaam and Balak were cursed of the Lord of Hosts; the
former for using enchantments, and the latter for employing Balaam in
this wicked work. _Woe to them that devise iniquity_: Micah, ii. 1.
Those who employ unhappy Gipsy women, should think on the portion of the
liar; Rev. xxi. 8: for the person who tempts another to utter falsehood
by offering rewards, is equally guilty before God. _A companion of fools
shall be destroyed_: Prov. xiii. 20. _Though hand join in hand_, in sin,
_the wicked shall not go unpunished_: Prov. xvi. 5. _The destruction of
the transgressors and the sinners shall be together_: Isai. i. 28. It
may be safely affirmed that the sin of those persons, who trifle with
Gipsy women in having their fortunes told by them, nearly resembles that
of the first king of Israel; who, by consulting, in his trouble, a wicked
woman, who pretended to supernatural power, filled up the measure of
those sins, by which he lost the protection of heaven, his crown, and his
life, and by which he involved his family in the most ru